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Mid-Michigan nurses union cancels strike after securing better pay, benefits for workers 2025-01-17 [Gander]

After two years without a contract, unionized Chipotle workers call for nationwide boycott 2024-12-04 [Marketplace]

Nearly 10,000 Michigan nurses join Teamsters in historic union election 2024-11-15 [International Brotherhood of Teamsters]

United Michigan Medicine Allied Professionals/AFT and University of Michigan Health reach memorandum of understanding, avoiding strike 2024-11-12 [CBS]

Union workers know that there’s only one ticket who’s going to fight for workers in this election 2024-10-13 [Whitmermi]

Bernie Sanders joins striking Marathon refinery workers on picket line in Detroit 2024-10-07 [The Free Press]

Women of Steel collect donations for Delta County food pantries 2024-10-04 [WLUC]

Women of Steel collect donations for Delta County food pantries 2024-10-04 [WLUC]

MI Medicine SEIU workers authorize one-day strike 2024-10-03 [MI Advance]

Truck hits picketers, kills United Auto Workers member on strike in Jackson 2024-09-30 [MLive]

UAW President Shawn Fain, Elissa Slotkin Fire Up Michigan Union Members at Flint Canvassing Event 2024-09-29 [UAW]

UAW fight with Stellantis escalates as union files unfair labor charges over factory commitments 2024-09-17 [ABC]

BorgWarner Workers Set to Strike as Contract Expires on Sunday, September 8 2024-09-07 [Ithaca.com]

NLRB and Michigan AG Partner to Protect Workers 2024-08-18 [JDSupra]

Webasto-Detroit workers say company is violating labor law to bust union activity 2024-08-15 [MI Advance]

UAW endorses Kamala Harris for president ahead of mass rally in Detroit 2024-08-09 [UAW]

UAW president says he supports Kamala Harris and that Donald Trump knows ‘nothing about autoworkers’ 2024-08-09 [AP]

Detroit Webasto workers file for union election 2024-08-02 [MI Advance]

MI restaurant workers react to state Supreme Court ruling on minimum wage 2024-08-01 [CBS]

Federal employees exposed to lead and bacteria in water due to delayed GSA response, IG says 2024-07-31 [Gov Exec]

Trump Rallies Fascists In Detroit & Struggle In UAW & Labor Movement With UAW Retired UAW 909 President Frank Hammer For more info 2024-06-18 [LVP]

Union workers picketing in Frankenmuth 2024-03-18 [WNEM]

UAW workers hold protest 2024-03-03 [ClickOnDetro]

Marathon Petroleum's Detroit refinery workers authorize strike, union says 2024-02-17 [Reuters]

Labor Hero Shawn Fain Backs Flight Attendant Union At Delta Detroit Hub 2024-02-16 [Forbes]

UAW workers wear white shirts in honor of 1930s strike 2024-02-12 [WNEM]

UAW Union Members Honor Historic Sit-Down Strike in Moving Tribute 2024-02-11 [BNN]

Trump paid $20,000 to rent plant for fake union auto worker event: filing 2024-02-06 [MSNBC]

Trump and Biden go back-and-forth over swing state union's endorsement 2024-01-31 [ABC]

Share of Michigan workers who are union members 2024-01-28 [Axios]

Casino workers with MGM Grand Detroit ratify deal, ending 47-day strike 2023-12-04 [AP]

MGM Grand Detroit casino workers ratify record-breaking labor agreement, ending strike 2023-12-03 [Detroit Free Press]

UAW workers at GM’s Flint plant narrowly vote against new labor deal 2023-11-12 [CNBC]

Donation drive held for Detroit casino, Blue Cross Blue Shield workers on strike 2023-11-08 [CBS]

UAW leaders outline tentative agreement with GM in Saturday livestream 2023-11-08 [WLNS]

UAW says GM outlines EV investment plans, will raise wages for US workers 2023-11-05 [Reuters]

Autoworkers are the latest to spotlight the power of US labor. What is the state of unions today? For more info 2023-11-02 [WFXR]

Detroit casino workers to Lions fans: 'Please don't cross our picket lines' 2023-10-31 [Detroit News]

Flashback: In 1937, Detroit workers kicked out their bosses in hundreds of sit-down strikes For more info 2023-10-29 [Detroit Free Press]

Ford, UAW reach tentative labor agreement 2023-10-26 [NBC]

UAW appears to be moving toward a potential deal with Ford that could end strike 2023-10-25 [AP]

UAW expands strike to 6,800 Stellantis workers in Michigan 2023-10-23 [Yahoo Finance]

AUTOS Truck driver pulls gun on striking UAW workers in Warren 2023-10-21 [CBS]

Workers across metro Detroit are out on strike. Here's who is on the picket line 2023-10-21 [Detroit Free Press]

Hundreds of workers on strike rally in downtown Detroit 2023-10-20 [Detroit Free Press]

Detroit Today: Casino workers say they are striking for respect and fair wages 2023-10-19 [WDET]

U.S. worker dies after head injury at michigan LG energy solution construction site 2023-10-19 [Korea JoongAng Daily]

Workers dies at LG chemical facility after pipe plate breaks free, strikes ahead 2023-10-19 [WWMT]

Detroit casino workers prep for possible strike as contract expiration nears 2023-10-13 [Detroit News]

UAW strike update: Michigan Local taking donations to help workers who have been on picket line since Sept. 15 2023-10-11 [FOX]

This month in labour history

This month in labour history

1-02-1864 The Collar Laundry Union was formed in New York, the first women's union in US history, led by Kate Mullany. Over the next few years the women increase their wages from $2 to $14 a week. [more]

2-02-1917 300 newspaper boys organize to challenge a cut in their wages by a newspaper, the Minneapolis Tribune. [more]

4-02-1924 IWW members took on the Ku Klux Klan, patrolling the streets of Greenville, Maine, after the KKK tried to threaten IWW union organisers: “We are going to stick, and if the Klan wants to start something, the IWW are going to finish it” [more]

4-02-1869 IWW and SPUSA leader Big Bill Haywood is born in Salt Lake City, Utah. [more]

4-02-1919 The General Strike Committee meets in Seattle, and makes preparations for an all-out labour stoppage [more]

5-02-1913 17-year-old Ida Braiman is shot dead by a contractor during the garment workers' strike in Rochester, NY. [more]

6-02-1919 A total of 60,000 of Seattle's population of 315,000 join the general strike on its first day [more]

8-02-1919 Workers in Butte, Montana responded to a dollar per day wage cut by launching a general strike. To prevent disunity, workers formed a Workers and Soldiers Council to conduct the strike. [more]

11-02-1937 The 6 week-long sit-down strike at General Motors in Flint Michigan ends as GM agrees to recognize the UAW. [more]

12-02-1968 The Memphis sanitation strike by African-American workers began in protest against mistreatment, discrimination, dangerous working conditions, and the recent deaths of two workers. They held out until April and won. [more]

13-02-1913 82-year-old labour activist Mother Jones was arrested in West Virginia for supporting a coal miners strike. Convicted in a military court she was sentenced to 20 years in prison. Pardoned after serving 85 days. [more]

14-02-1818 Frederick Douglass is born into slavery in Maryland. He will go on to become a titanic figure in the struggle against slavery, and in favour of universal suffrage and women's rights. [more]

14-02-1936 Goodyear workers in Ohio strike. They defy union orders to leave the plant & resist 150 sheriff's deputies. Threatening a general strike if a vigilante army was used, they won after a month. [more]

15-02-1913 A strike of rubber workers in #Akron organised by @_IWW union grew to 3,500 strikers. Earlier that month 300 workers at Firestone walked out and were eventually joined by 20K others but police violence & repression forced them to end it. [more]

18-02-1935 Tens of thousands of New Yorkers were stranded by a wildcat strike of elevator operators in the city. [more]

19-02-1866 The first union in Mississippi was created by African-American washerwomen. [more]

19-02-1986 The Farm Labourers Organizing Committee wins recognition at Campbell's Soup farms after years of struggle [more]

20-02-1919 The Elaine massacre took place in Arkansas. After black farm workers tried to organise for better pay, hundreds of African-Americans were murdered and tortured by white racists and security forces [more]

23-02-1910 Workers at the soon to be infamous Triangle Shirtwaist factory decided to end their five month long strike. They had won higher wages and reduced hours but failed to get union recognition. [more]

24-02-1939 US Supreme Court ruled sitdown strikes illegal. [more]

24-02-1944 320 men, mostly African-Americans were killed in explosion at the Port Chicago naval base. 50 African-American servicemen who then protested against unsafe conditions were court-martialed and sentenced to 8-15 years hard labour. [more]

27-02-1881 African-American laundresses in Atlanta, Georgia, went on strike and were successful in raising wages and establishing a union. [more]

27-02-1939 Supreme Court rules that sit-down strikes violate property owners' rights and are therefore illegal. [more]